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2019-03-15: Social Media Postees

Video: Israeli Defense Firm Released Video Showing An "Animated Destruction" of Russia's S-400 6L6 Surveillance Radar
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-15
The Syrian conflict influences not only the balance of power in the Middle East, but also strategies and military programs of the powers involved. | There is no secret that over the past years the Russian Armed Forces have used Syria …globalresearch.ca/israeli-defense-firm-r…

White Supremacist Kills 49 Muslim Worshipers in New Zealand as Islamophobic Hate Crimes Rise Globally
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-15
In New Zealand, a white right-wing extremist killed 49 people in an attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch during Friday prayers. It is the deadliest shooting in New Zealand's history. Police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old Australian man named Brenton Tarrant with the attack. The gunman live-streamed the attack and published a manifesto in which he praised President Donald Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose." We speak with human rights activist and lawyer Qasim Rashid, who recently launched a campaign to run for a seat in the Virginia state Senate. And we speak wit…www.democracynow.org/2019/3/15/white_sup…

Senate invokes War Powers to Halt US aid to Saudi War on Yemen
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2019-03-15
The US Senate voted 54 to 46 to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act and to end US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen…zcomm.org/znetarticle/senate-invokes-war…

Peace activists cheer anti-war win on Senate Yemen resolution
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-03-15
WASHINGTON–Peace activists nationwide, who strenuously lobbied lawmakers on the issue, cheered the U.S. Senate's 54-46 vote to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led Yemen War. Lawmakers invoked the War Powers Act in their blunt rebuke to President Donald Trump's pro-war actions. The Democratic-run House previously approved the anti-war move. But just to make sure Trump …peoplesworld.org/article/peace-activists…

Expanding Supreme Court May Be Only Way to Protect Democracy
Miles Mogulescu | commondreams.org | 2019-03-15
Given the relative youth of the conservative Justices, the Supreme Court could undermine democracy, overturn the will of Congress and regulatory agencies to combat climate change, and infringe a woman's right to choose for generations after Trump, McConnell, and many Republican Senators are dead and gone. (Photo: Ron Cogswell/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……commondreams.org/views/2019/03/15/expand…

Thousands of Students Strike Worldwide in Climate Change Action
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-15
Tens of thousands of students around the world walked out of classes Friday in a global strike to protest against government inaction on climate change. | RELATED: | Greta Thunberg Nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize | Student protests in Wellington, Sydney and Melbourne drew tens of thousands of people. In Europe, students packed streets and squares in London, Copenhagen, Rome, Vienna, Zurich and Lisbon. Demonstrations were also planned in the United States. | "Climate change…telesurenglish.net/news/Thousands-of-Stu…

Native Leaders Tell Congress How Trump Trampled 'Spiritually Occupied Landscape' to Carve Up National Monuments
Julia Conley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-15
House Democrats, indigenous tribal leaders, and public land protection advocates all rebuked the Trump administration's downsizing of two national monuments Wednesday, arguing that President Donald Trump and former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke acted illegally by conducting what at least one …globalresearch.ca/trump-trampled-spiritu…

Trump Issues His First Veto After Rebuke of Border Order
STAFF | truthdig.com | 2019-03-15
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday, overruling Congress to protect the emergency declaration he'd used to circumvent lawmakers to build his border wall. | Flanked by law enforcement officials as well as the parents of children killed by people in the country illegally, Trump maintained that he is not through fighting for his signature campaign promise, which stands largely unfulfilled 18 months before voters decide whether to grant him another term. | "Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution," Trump said, "and I have the duty to veto it." | A dozen…truthdig.com/articles/trump-issues-his-f…

On Our Knees
Missy Comley Beattie | counterpunch.org | 2019-03-15
I have been wrong at CounterPunch 26.5 times. One example: writing that Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. After the election of Donald Trump, plenty of you emailed, chastising me for the mistake. Occasionally, and for a split second only, I wish Clinton had won. More on this later. Recall another Donald now: Rumsfeld. Then…counterpunch.org/2019/03/15/on-our-knees…

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations
ACLU | indybay.org | 2019-03-15
Local governments like Merced and Union City, California, are feeding their residents' personal information to ICE, even when it violates local privacy laws or sanctuary policies. California Senate Bill 34 and the California Values Act (SB 54) are supposed to prohibit local law enforcement agencies from sharing license plate information and personal information for immigration enforcement or with out-of-state or federal agencies.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/13/1882189…

Kamala Harris Faces Obstruction of Justice & Corruption Charges By SF TI Residents
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-03-15
Senator Kamala Harris who is running for president of the United States was charged with obstruction of justice and involved in a corruption cover-up at the San Francisco Treasure Island shipyard by two former residents Andre Patterson and Felita Sample. They both accused Kamala Harris of knowing about the dangerous radiation and toxins on the island that were poisoning the residents but kept quiet about it after promising them she would deal with it after her election to the Senate. | Other nuclear OSHA whistleblowers who worked for Tetra Tech and Michael Madry who worked for Test America formerly owned by H.I.G…indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/15/1882193…

New Zealand Attack Comes as Islamophobic Violence Rises Globally
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-03-15
In New Zealand, a white right-wing extremist killed 49 people in an attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch during Friday prayers. It is the deadliest shooting in New Zealand's history. Police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old Australian man named Brenton Tarrant with the attack. The gunman live-streamed the attack and published a manifesto in which he praised President Donald Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose." We speak with human rights activist and lawyer Qasim Rashid, who recently launched a campaign to run for a seat in the Virginia state Senate. And we speak…truthout.org/video/49-muslims-killed-in-…

Historic Yemen Vote: Despite Possible Veto, 'Great Leverage for Peace Talks'
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-03-15
The Senate's vote, invoking the War Powers Act and withdrawing U.S. support for the war in Yemen, could still be vetoed by Trump, but it can provide a way forward for ending this horrific war, say Shireen Al-Adeimi and Hassan El-Tayyab…therealnews.com/stories/historic-yemen-v…

HUD Tenant Leaders Demand Congress Declare Trump's 2020 Budget "Dead on Arrival"
Posted by Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2019-03-15
Earlier today the Elected leaders of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants demanded an immediate and total rejection by Congress of President Donald Trump's 2020 budget request, released on March 11!indybay.org/newsitems/2019/03/13/1882190…

The college admissions scandal and the rigged system of admissions at elite universities
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-15
The scandal involving charges against 50 individuals, including 33 parents, is a window into the anti-democratic character of the entire world of admissions processes in higher education.www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/15/coll…

A Foreign Policy Platform for the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-15
What would a progressive foreign policy platform look like? Democrats, unlike Republicans, have no coherent perspective on foreign policy. Summary of an event convoked by Rep. Ro Khanna to "Chart a Progressive Foreign Policy for the Trump Era and Beyond"therealnews.com/stories/a-foreign-policy…

Top US General Supports Pre-Emptive Nuclear First Strike
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-15
(ANTIWAR.COM) — With the world's largest, most destructive arsenal of nuclear weapons, the United States poses an enormous risk not just to peace, but to the survival of much of the human race. That's only a problem, of course, if the US starts using that arsenal. Which is where formal US nuclear doctrine would come in. There …theantimedia.com/top-us-general-supports…

Strzok testimony shows Obama's DOJ agreed to restrict probe into Clinton emails to secure access
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-15
The DOJ agreed not to look into certain emails on the private servers of Hillary Clinton during its investigation in order to facilitate FBI access to them, released closed-door testimony of former FBI agent Peter Strzok shows. | …rt.com/usa/453937-doj-clinton-deal-strzo…

Southern Progressives Focus on Electoral Justice, Not Democratic Party
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2019-03-15
For more than 85 years, the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee has been leading the fight for social, racial and economic justice. Co-executive directors of the Highlander Center, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Reverend Allyn Maxfield-Steele, recently appeared on my show to discuss Southern organizing efforts around the 2018 midterms, why Black women were so integral to what the media termed a "blue wave," and the importance of rural ownership of internet infrastructure. A lightly edited transcription of our conversations appears below. | Lau…truthout.org/articles/southern-progressi…

US Senate votes to overturn Trump emergency decree
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-03-15
The resolution has no immediate practical effect, because Trump will veto it and there is little prospect of an override by Congress, which requires a two-thirds vote.www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/15/emer…

The Globalization of War, America's "Long War" against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-14
Professor Michel Chossudovsky shows how the various conflicts we are witnessing today in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Palestine are inter-locked through a single-minded agenda in pursuit of global hegemony helmed by the United States and buttressed by its allies…globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-w…

US and Iranian Hardliners Continue the Suffering
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-14
Ann Wright reports on a citizen peace delegation's recent trip to Iran, which included a meeting with the country's foreign minister. By Ann Wright Special to Consortium News We knew that a CODEPINK: Women for Peace delegation to Iran would wind… Read more ?…consortiumnews.com/2019/03/14/us-and-ira…

French Politics: Are the Centre-Right Conservatives Still Economic Liberals?
William Harrison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-03-14
There is something strange going on in the French senate. Ideological disorientation has taken hold. The centre-right Les Républicains, and the Parti Socialiste, of the centre-left, have somehow found themselves on the same side, contending with a cabinet-backed business and …globalresearch.ca/french-politics-are-th…

Nicaraguan Government and Opposition Resume Peace Talks
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-03-14
Delegations from the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity and from the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, have resumed this Thursday at the Negotiation Roundtables for Agreement and Peace, in Nicaragua's capital, Managua. | RELATED: | Nicaragua: Meetings For Understanding and Peace Begin | On Thursday, Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, applau…telesurenglish.net/news/Nicaraguan-Gover…

U.S. anti-war delegation arrives in Venezuela
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-03-14
Caracas, Venezuela – A U.S. Peace Council Delegation of 13 people representing anti-war organizations from the United States and Canada arrived in Venezuela this week on a solidarity mission with the Venezuelan people and the Maduro government at a time of unprecedented attacks by the U.S. The latest is a cyber-attack and sabotage of the entire electrical system, which resulted in a total blackout of the country with the aim of provoking the people to rise up against their government. Despite the hardships of no electricity and water, this attack failed as people rallied around their government and the gains of t…www.fightbacknews.org/2019/3/13/us-anti-…

Impeaching Trump: Pelosi Says It's "Not Worth It," But Progressive Democrats Push Ahead
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-14
Democratic lawmakers are continuing to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking out against impeachment in an interview earlier this week. Impeachment rumors have been swirling since the Democrats regained control of the House in January. Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan said last week that she will formally introduce articles of impeachment this month. We speak with John Bonifaz, an attorney and political activist specializing in constitutional law and voting rights. He is the co-founder and president of Free Speech for People, one of the organizatio…www.democracynow.org/2019/3/14/impeachin…

Senate joins House in voting against border emergency declaration, Trump says 'Veto!'
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-14
The US Senate has joined the House of Representatives in opposing President Donald Trump's declaration of emergency on the southern border. Trump said he will veto the unprecedented joint resolution. | …rt.com/usa/453840-senate-emergency-wall-…

Republicans Across US Pushing Dangerous Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Abortion Measures
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-03-14
Texas Republicans introduced a flurry of anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ measures, 18-week abortion bans continue to advance in Arkansas and Utah, and "heartbeat" bans moved forward in Georgia and Tennessee. | Arkansas: | The state senate public health committee approved a measure last week that would make it a felony, punishable by up to six years in prison, to perform an abortion if a fetus has reached 18 weeks' gestational age. Current state law prohibits abortion at 20 weeks' gestation. The " Cherish Act"–which…truthout.org/articles/republicans-across…

Chelsea Manning jailed again and not a squeak from the Democrats
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who blew the whistle on US war crimes, and spent four years in an army stockade from 2013 as a result, is back in prison again. | This time it is because she refuses to join a bipartisan campaign against Wikileaks that seeks to bring its founder Julian Assange from his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to the US to put him on trial and send him to prison. | In 2010, Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of documents about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She first tried to get mainstream media to publish them, to no avail, before turning to Wikileaks, which did p…greenleft.org.au/content/chelsea-manning-jailed-again-and-not-squeak-democrats

Beto strolls into 2020 Democratic primary, gets upstaged by his own dog
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-14
Beto O'Rourke, America's favorite oversharing Senate candidate, is striding into the 2020 race with a glamorous photo shoot and a low-key text message — except his fan base seems to have moved on to the next hot young thing. | …rt.com/usa/453771-beto-announces-democra…

Senate Votes to End U.S. Support for Yemen War, But Republican Tricks Send Resolution Back to the House Yet Again
Akela Lacy | theintercept.com | 2019-03-14
"We're going to help end a war which has caused unbelievable horror to one of the poorest countries on earth," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, the bill's sponsor.theintercept.com/2019/03/13/senate-votes…

Senate Votes to Terminate Trump's Border National Emergency
Jake Johnson | theantimedia.com | 2019-03-14
(CD) — Rights groups celebrated a "historic rebuke" of an unconstitutional power grab Thursday after the Senate voted to terminate President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration by an overwhelming bipartisan margin. "Today's vote is a major blow to President Donald Trump's autocratic ambitions," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "The American people don't want a racist …theantimedia.com/senate-national-emergen…

'Our feminism is anti-racist and internationalist'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-03-14
Elections in Berlin in September 2016 returned a coalition government made up of the Social Democratic Party, the socialist Left Party and the Green Party. Early this year, the city declared International Women's Day (IWD) a public holiday. | Internationally, the call for a women's strike on IWD has been gathering momentum. In Berlin on March 8, an alliance of feminist organisations organised a Women's Fighting Day rally and march with the theme "celebrating, striking, keep on fighting". About 20,000 people attended. | Sibylle Kaczorek, a member of Socialist Alliance and the Left Party who is currently living in…greenleft.org.au/content/our-feminism-anti-racist-and-internationalist

Trump's Militarized Budget Slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and Clean Energy
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-03-14
Preparing for war with largest peacetime military budget paid for with devastating cuts to the poor, ending environmental regulation, destroying retirement and healthcare. Do divided Democrats have an answer? Lindsay Koshgarian of IPS analyzes the proposal…therealnews.com/stories/trumps-militariz…

Boeing 737 planes to remain grounded for 'weeks' – Congress members after FAA briefing
RT | rt.com | 2019-03-14
Boeing 737 MAX 8 and 9 planes will remain grounded for "weeks" until the updates to faulty software are tested, US lawmakers said after a briefing with Federal Aviation Administration officials. | …rt.com/usa/453829-boeing-congress-ground…

Senate Votes Again for Ending U.S. Role in Yemen War
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2019-03-13
Washington, D.C. — March 13, 2019 — In response to the Senate passing S.J.Res. 7, legislation directing the president to withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi/UAE-led war in Yemen, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs at Peace Action, released the following statement: "This Senate vote moves us one step closer to …peaceaction.org/2019/03/13/senate-votes-…

As Joe Biden Hints at Presidential Run, Andrew Cockburn Looks at His "Disastrous Legislative Legacy"
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-03-13
Speculation is mounting that former Vice President Joe Biden will soon enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. As a longtime senator from Delaware, Biden has previously run twice for the Democratic nomination. The last time was in 2008, when he ultimately became then-Senator Barack Obama's running mate. While a new campaign would seek to capitalize on Biden's two terms as vice president, it would also invite scrutiny of his Senate record in a Democratic political climate that is notably more progressive today than it was when Biden last sought the nomination. We speak with Andrew Cockburn, Wash…www.democracynow.org/2019/3/13/as_joe_bi…

It's High Time Congress Passed the Equality Act
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
The legislation would expand federal civil rights protections to explicitly include LGBTQ people. | On Wednesday, the Equality Act — legislation that would provide LGBTQ people with explicit and comprehensive nondiscrimination protections — was introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives with the support of nearly 300 members of Congress. If passed, it would transform the civil rights landscape in the United States. | The harsh reality — despite increasing support among the public and representation in popular culture — is that discrimination remains a persistent problem for…aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/lgbt-nondiscri…

VIPS: Mueller's Forensics-Free Findings
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2019-03-13
The final Mueller report should be graded "incomplete," says VIPS, whose forensic work proves the speciousness of the story that DNC emails published by WikiLeaks came from Russian hacking. March 13, 2019 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Attorney General FROM: Veteran… Read more ?…consortiumnews.com/2019/03/13/vips-muell…

Press Freedom Groups Urge Court to Uphold Core First Amendment Protection in DNC-Russia Lawsuit
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-03-13
The First Amendment protects Wikileaks from being sued over the release of the DNC's hacked emails. | In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic National Committee was hacked, and thousands of its emails and other private documents were stolen. Those documents were eventually released to the public through a website run by "Guccifer 2.0" (an online persona allegedly maintained by the Russian government) and through WikiLeaks. Early last year, the DNC sued those it believes are responsible for the hack, including the Trump campaign and Russian officials. | The DNC also sued WikiLeaks and Juli…aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/…

Sovereign Citizen Calls for Action on Bogus 'Indictment'
Brendan Joel Kelley | splcenter.org | 2019-03-13
It was to have been a historic roundup of enemies of the extreme right, ending with Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Senator Harry Reid and a slew of other politicians, jurists and law enforcement officers in the custody of those who would have them tried by "common law grand juries" for their perceived crimes.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/03/14/sover…

NAACP Issues Letters to Congress Calling for Hearings on Domestic Terrorism and Government Surveillance of Black Activists
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2019-03-13
Letters sent to chairs of House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees BALTIMORE (March 13, 2019)–Today, the nation's foremost civil rights organization issued letters addressed to the chairs of the House Committees on Homeland Security and the House Judiciary Committee to request hearings on the issues of domestic terrorism; and regarding the ways in which Black …naacp.org/latest/naacp-issues-letters-co…

Kamala Harris Celebrates Her Role in the Mortgage Crisis Settlement. The Reality Is Quite Different
David Dayen | theintercept.com | 2019-03-13
Pretty much every major Democratic official involved in responding to the foreclosure crisis during the Obama years did an unforgivably terrible job. That's how we wound up with 10 million families losing their homes, an unprecedented disaster that touched every corner of America and triggered the populist backlash we're living through today. | There isn't a particular individual to single out and blame for the party's failure, and that's not what this story is doing. Kamala Harris's role in the affair was no more or less tragic than anyone else's. But now that she's running for president, Harris is not only elid…theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamala-harri…

German Jewish Peace Group Wins Peace Prize; Then Attacked as Being Anti-Semitic
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-03-13
Shir Hever talks about the Gà∂ttingen Peace Prize and how it transformed the debate around Palestinian rights in Germany, despite efforts by right-wing politicians to prevent the prize from being given to Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East…therealnews.com/stories/german-jewish-pe…

Baltimore Incinerator Could Lose Green Subsidies (UPDATED)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2019-03-13
By Dharna Noor. | UPDATED 11: 40AM EST: The Senate version of the Clean Energy Jobs Act no longer includes a provision removing subsidies for incineration. The Senate Finance Committee voted on the bill the morning of Thursday March 14. They passed the bill without the provision. The committee is set to vote on SB548, which would remove subsidies for incineration, on Thursday afternoon. | Mayor Catherine Pugh signed a bill into law on Thursday, March 7 that will impose stricter regulations on incinerators by…therealnews.com/columns/baltimore-incine…